Son of Dolores (Sanchez) and Luis Cetina.
Died in a fire at Ole's Hardware Store in South Pasadena, CA.
Jimmy was a student and was saving money to buy a white VW.
These are yearbook photos from Blair High School, probably from the year before he died.
The Ancestry death index lists him as "Jaime Cetina," which was probably his given name, though he went by Jim and Jimmy.
According to the book "Fire Lover" and a few newspaper articles, he was a pretty good baseball player, and was being scouted by the Chicago Cubs.
Blair has an annual awards night and hands out a bunch of awards, including the Jimmy Cetina Memorial Award.
According to "Fire Lover":
"The Pasadena Star News reported that more than 1,200 people packed the church for the funeral of Jimmy Cetina. The monsignor had decided to have the Mass during school hours, and the classrooms emptied. The police had to block traffic for miles down San Gabriel Boulevard for the 200 cars that drove to the cemetery.
"Jimmy Cetina had applied for the job at Ole's to help out the family with the purchase of a used white Volkswagen. They couldn't afford insurance yet, so nobody had driven the car. It was parked in the backyard, and Jimmy had liked to sit in it and tell his family what he was going to do to fix it up. But Jimmy never got to drive it. His brother drove it behind Jimmy's hearse in the funeral cortege. Later they sold it. His father couldn't bear to have that white car around anymore."
Blair was closed for the day so students could attend the funeral service.
The L.A. Times printed an lengthy excerpt from "Fire Lover" in 2002:
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/28/magazine/tm-40467
Died in a fire at Ole's Hardware Store in South Pasadena, CA.
Jimmy was a student and was saving money to buy a white VW.
These are yearbook photos from Blair High School, probably from the year before he died.
The Ancestry death index lists him as "Jaime Cetina," which was probably his given name, though he went by Jim and Jimmy.
According to the book "Fire Lover" and a few newspaper articles, he was a pretty good baseball player, and was being scouted by the Chicago Cubs.
Blair has an annual awards night and hands out a bunch of awards, including the Jimmy Cetina Memorial Award.
According to "Fire Lover":
"The Pasadena Star News reported that more than 1,200 people packed the church for the funeral of Jimmy Cetina. The monsignor had decided to have the Mass during school hours, and the classrooms emptied. The police had to block traffic for miles down San Gabriel Boulevard for the 200 cars that drove to the cemetery.
"Jimmy Cetina had applied for the job at Ole's to help out the family with the purchase of a used white Volkswagen. They couldn't afford insurance yet, so nobody had driven the car. It was parked in the backyard, and Jimmy had liked to sit in it and tell his family what he was going to do to fix it up. But Jimmy never got to drive it. His brother drove it behind Jimmy's hearse in the funeral cortege. Later they sold it. His father couldn't bear to have that white car around anymore."
Blair was closed for the day so students could attend the funeral service.
The L.A. Times printed an lengthy excerpt from "Fire Lover" in 2002:
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/28/magazine/tm-40467
Son of Dolores (Sanchez) and Luis Cetina.
Died in a fire at Ole's Hardware Store in South Pasadena, CA.
Jimmy was a student and was saving money to buy a white VW.
These are yearbook photos from Blair High School, probably from the year before he died.
The Ancestry death index lists him as "Jaime Cetina," which was probably his given name, though he went by Jim and Jimmy.
According to the book "Fire Lover" and a few newspaper articles, he was a pretty good baseball player, and was being scouted by the Chicago Cubs.
Blair has an annual awards night and hands out a bunch of awards, including the Jimmy Cetina Memorial Award.
According to "Fire Lover":
"The Pasadena Star News reported that more than 1,200 people packed the church for the funeral of Jimmy Cetina. The monsignor had decided to have the Mass during school hours, and the classrooms emptied. The police had to block traffic for miles down San Gabriel Boulevard for the 200 cars that drove to the cemetery.
"Jimmy Cetina had applied for the job at Ole's to help out the family with the purchase of a used white Volkswagen. They couldn't afford insurance yet, so nobody had driven the car. It was parked in the backyard, and Jimmy had liked to sit in it and tell his family what he was going to do to fix it up. But Jimmy never got to drive it. His brother drove it behind Jimmy's hearse in the funeral cortege. Later they sold it. His father couldn't bear to have that white car around anymore."
Blair was closed for the day so students could attend the funeral service.
The L.A. Times printed an lengthy excerpt from "Fire Lover" in 2002:
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/28/magazine/tm-40467
Died in a fire at Ole's Hardware Store in South Pasadena, CA.
Jimmy was a student and was saving money to buy a white VW.
These are yearbook photos from Blair High School, probably from the year before he died.
The Ancestry death index lists him as "Jaime Cetina," which was probably his given name, though he went by Jim and Jimmy.
According to the book "Fire Lover" and a few newspaper articles, he was a pretty good baseball player, and was being scouted by the Chicago Cubs.
Blair has an annual awards night and hands out a bunch of awards, including the Jimmy Cetina Memorial Award.
According to "Fire Lover":
"The Pasadena Star News reported that more than 1,200 people packed the church for the funeral of Jimmy Cetina. The monsignor had decided to have the Mass during school hours, and the classrooms emptied. The police had to block traffic for miles down San Gabriel Boulevard for the 200 cars that drove to the cemetery.
"Jimmy Cetina had applied for the job at Ole's to help out the family with the purchase of a used white Volkswagen. They couldn't afford insurance yet, so nobody had driven the car. It was parked in the backyard, and Jimmy had liked to sit in it and tell his family what he was going to do to fix it up. But Jimmy never got to drive it. His brother drove it behind Jimmy's hearse in the funeral cortege. Later they sold it. His father couldn't bear to have that white car around anymore."
Blair was closed for the day so students could attend the funeral service.
The L.A. Times printed an lengthy excerpt from "Fire Lover" in 2002:
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/28/magazine/tm-40467
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